As part of National Poetry Writing Month, I will be writing 30 poems in 30 days. I will try to write one each day, but if I miss a day or two, I will catch up on later days. Sometimes I will be following prompts; while other days will come from my own ideas.

I based this poem on the prompt from NaPoWriMo.net, which was to take a short poem and write a counterpoint to it by rewriting it replacing words with words that have the opposite meaning. I chose an e.e. cummings poem, which worked surprisingly well.

[love is more thicker than forget]BY E. E. CUMMINGS

love is more thicker than forgetmore thinner than recallmore seldom than a wave is wetmore frequent than to fail

it is most mad and moonlyand less it shall unbethan all the sea which onlyis deeper than the sea

love is less always than to winless never than aliveless bigger than the least beginless littler than forgive

it is most sane and sunlyand more it cannot diethan all the sky which onlyis higher than the sky

[hate is less thin than remember]BY ALYCE WILSON

hate is less thin than rememberless thicker than obliterateless common than a line is aridless sporadic than to triumph

it is least sane and sunlyand more it shall bethan nothing the sky which togetheris emptier than the sky

hate is more never than to failmore always than deceasedmore tinier than the most endmore bigger than accuse

it is least mad and moonlyand less it can survivethan none the sea which togetheris lower than the sea

- April 30, 2013

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